Station Update 041907

HEY NOW, FELLOW TRAVELERS!


Tune in Earth Day : Friday, April 20 will feature Earth Day-related programming starting at 6pm ET. Included among the goodies, at 7:30, an archived Air America interview with Al Franken and environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr., and at 8 pm, "Walden," a radio drama by WoodSongs' Old Time Radio Hour. Join us throughout Earth Day -- and do your part to make the planet cleaner and greener... GDR News takes flight Our news department is coming along nicely: Expect to hear reports from our new West Coast bureau chief, award-winning journalist and poet Kimberly Beavers, and from East Coast-based news director/editor Natalie Davis (plus, we are thisclose to landing an excellent Washington, DC, correspondent) Any tips, send 'em to the editor And welcome our new Membership Coordinator Nicole Potter... The CRB & RIAA are sticking it to netradio. PLEASE HELP US SURVIVE! Join Grateful Dread Radio -- your membership will help us try to meet rising expenses, make necessary technical and programming updates, continue and expand our grassroots work... in short -- to stay on the air.

TO-DO LIST: Write me to learn about Supporting Membership, Supporting Sponsor, in-kind donations, fiscal sponsorship by licensed nonprofits, and underwriting opportunities. Please take our GDR SURVEY. And please take action: Urge lawmakers in Congress to stop unfair efforts by greedy capitalists to keep netradio from serving the global community. Do your part to make sure we still have access to artists and ideas generally ignored and dismissed by the mainstream media and a clueless mass culture that seems happy to let big media control and limit their choices.

Join Taylor Hicks in Red Cross Disaster Relief

Now, this is darned nice: Singer-songwriter Taylor Hicks is using part of his national tour to bring attention to those devastated by the recent tornadoes in Alabama and Georgia. Hicks' Southeast-area concerts this weekend will raise funds for the American Red Cross and its disaster-relief efforts in those states. Way to go, Tay!

Grateful Dread Radio wants to do its part too: From time to time on this Red Cross Weekend at GDR, we'll air Red Cross announcements and we urge you to donate to the organization as well so that victims of the tragedy can receive the help they need.